Philadelphia's archbishop calls on state lawmakers to swiftly pass pending voucher and tax-credit scholarship legislation. Without it, he says, several more Catholic schools will close and their students funded fully by taxpayers.

Ohio lawmakers have reached a deal on Cleveland school changes, to include removing last-in-first-out hiring and firing requirements, make it easier to fire poor teachers, allowing the district executive to make changes to failing schools directly, and allowing charter schools to receive portions of property taxes.